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Orbit Logic Supporting SSCI for DARPA Blackjack Pit
Boss

Orbit Logic announced that
they are a member of the Scientific Systems Company,
Inc. (SSCI) Blackjack Pit Boss team for the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The DARPA
Blackjack program aims to demonstrate the capabilities
of a proliferated low Earth orbit (P-LEO) system through
a variety of on-orbit experiments using 20 low-cost
small satellites, each carrying payloads relevant to
select military missions. Pit Boss is the computing and
encryption hardware and modular software element of
Blackjack that is intended to enable tasking,
collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination
(TCPED) to occur autonomously on-orbit within the P-LEO
constellation at mission speed. Orbit Logic is
contributing software and engineering services for both
ground software and flight software portions of SSCI’s
Pit Boss solution.

Orbit Logic will provide space
system autonomy software expertise to the SSCI team,
with knowledge derived from development of their
Autonomous Planning System (APS) flight software and
SpyMeSat ground software.APS
enables autonomous onboard planning and replanning in
response to data requests and events, including
coordination between satellites.

Orbit Logic’s SpyMeSat is a
commercially available mobile app that enables users
with the ability to browse and request commercial
imagery data products and request new imagery tasks,
while providing situational awareness of all on-orbit
assets.SSCI Vice
President of Research and Development, Dr. Owen Brown
stated, “SSCI is incredibly fortunate to have Orbit
Logic as a part of our team.Their
proven space software products and innovative, highly
experienced engineering staff are vital assets for our
development of a complex, first of its kind, autonomy
system for satellite constellations.”